Guild Wars 2

This came up in another thread, yet hopefully it will generate better discussion in its own thread.

I think it would be really cool for a few legendary weapons to receive additional skins that are almost identical, but have different color schemes than the original. The skin itself should remain the same, the only thing that should change is the color scheme of the weapon, and perhaps that of the aura. Some examples that I thought of (or others have mentioned to me) are:

• Greenish-blue C&C
• Shadow themed dreamer (though this would involve changing the projectiles)
• electro-grape bolt
• Fiery-red bifrost
• Etc….

The reason for this suggestion is because of how expensive legendary weapons are, and because of people always asking for the ability to dye weapons. I think that this strikes a nice compromise for the most expensive weapons in the game, and as an added benefit it won’t require the dye or weapon system to be reworked at all because its just another skin.

Now obviously this wouldn’t make sense for all legendaries (Sunrise/Twilight/Eternity in particular are about 90% painting so it wouldn’t make sense for them), and I’m not suggesting that we have 10+ different color schemes per legendary. But I do think that a few could get another 2 or 3 skins with different color palettes added just to give players more options.

How players would unlock these skins is up for debate. They could all be unlocked automatically as soon as you acquire the weapon, and then you can change at will with transmutation charge. They could alternatively be sold in the gem store for a small price (after you unlock the skin of course). Or there could be another acquisition method.

And yes, it will be some amount of work to make them look good. I don’t know anything about how much work goes into making a legendary, but I’m hopeful that because the actual design is already finished and this would just be changing the color scheme of the weapon and aura, that it wouldn’t be that much work to implement. And I know that everyone would appreciate having some more choice in their wardrobes, especially when it comes to such expensive weapons.

Whether ppl like a particular legendary or not, they are still a named, unique weapon and it would not make any sense to have multiple skins (or colours) for them. In that respect, no i don’t think we should have multiple colours.

The other issue, where does the line get drawn about what colours get included or excluded? It would be simpler to leave it as it is and spare the additional outcries that players want even more colours.